Tish Valles

Activist, Blogger, Brainstormer, Business mentor, Change Agent, Concerned citizen, Connector, Consultant, Entrepreneur, Explorer, Global soul, Idea generator, Marketer, Performer, Philanthropist, Social entrepreneur, World traveler, Writer/Editor

Tish is a bean-maker, not a bean-taker. With a global specialization in Research and Innovation, Brand Strategy and Story, Tish is driven to unlock the better stories of visionaries and brands. She has worked with Fortune 100 brands in a range of categories including food, beverage, beauty, baby care, health and wellness, energy, luxury, home care, spirits, and pharmaceuticals. Tish specializes in brand strategy and communications, qualitative research, insight and innovation. Her work delivers growth and innovation–exploring fresh ways organizations, products and brands can participate as cultural citizens and forces for change; this has transformed some of the most iconic brands as well as startups, small businesses, and nonprofits. A poet, writer and facilitator, Tish has read at the louderARTS Project in New York, the Lake Eden Arts Festival in Black Mountain, the Taos Poetry Festival in New Mexico, and at the Boulevard San Michel in Paris. She has written poetry my whole life and is currently working on a series of novels. A member of the community since 2009, Tish holds the TEDxNewYorkSalon license and serves as lead organizer and programming director. An educator’s daughter, Tish has dedicated my life to advocating for the education of impoverished girls and women. At age 12, she began my ongoing campaign to make post-secondary education available by fundraising tuition fees for under-served women and girls. She has been involved in productions of The V Monologues to fund raise for women's causes and is co-founder of The Worldwide Women’s Web, an online collaboration platform for the educational and financial empowerment of women and girls around the world. Currently based in Brooklyn, New York, she has worked in the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe, the UK, and the UAE. I speak English, Filipino and Spanish; and am taxi conversant in French, Mandarin, Thai, Japanese, and Bahasa Indonesia. Her bragging rights include… • Clio Gold Award-Winning Copywriter • Scholar Award Winning Strategist for Planning Effectiveness, Ogilvy Asia Pacific • Unlocked the strategic insight for the Pond's that inspired the shift in the brand's global direction • co-Founder of the Women's Worldwide Web, an online platform dedicated to the educational and economic empowerment of the world's girls and women • Designed a breakthrough ethnographic approach that went on to win an Atticus award for original thinking in communications

Collaborative Edge. High Fidelity Strategy. Intersectionality. Poetry. Social enterprise. Social Justice. The rights of women & children.Travel and adventure. Films. Artful living.

Girls' and women's empowerment is the key to poverty alleviation This is what the. Women's WorldWide Web (W4) works to promote in both developing and developed countries. The W4 crowdfunding platform enables users to support grassroots projects across the globe which are providing girls and women with access to education, training, microfinance, entrepreneurial opportunities, healthcare, access to Information and Communication Technologies and rights awareness. Please be in touch if you would like to know more about our work. We would be glad to explore the mutually rewarding ways in which we can collaborate with you and your organization to empower women all over the world. Mission Women’s WorldWide Web (W4) brings together individuals who aspire to a more peaceful, fair and sharing world — a world in which women, men and children everywhere are able to live dignified lives, free from the harms of poverty and the violation of human rights.

Brand Strategy, Communications, Facilitation, Innovation, Marketing, Qualitative Research, Workshop

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